With over 350,000 motion pictures and 160,000 television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage, UCLA Film & Television Archive is the world's largest university-held collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming.

Over 160,000 holdings spanning the entire course of broadcast history, such as:

DuMont TV

Primetime and Los Angeles area Emmy Award nominees and winners

KTLA newsfilm

ABC-TV Collection of over 20,000 titles, early television dating back to the late-1940s

Over 10,000 commercials

50 years of Hallmark Hall of Fame broadcasts

A significant collection of Golden Age anthology dramas

In the Life

First premiering in 1992 on the New York public television station WNYC-TV, In the Life was a trailblazer in LGBTQ representation and equal rights advocacy, capturing history-in-the-making for 20 years. All 21 seasons are available for viewing through this web portal. Learn more >

L.A. Rebellion

Beginning in the late 1960s, a number of promising African and African-American students entered UCLA film school. Many of the works produced by this esteemed group, including student films and theatrically-released motion pictures, are available for research viewing by appointment. Learn more >

Hearst Metrotone News

The Hearst Metrotone News collection is one of the largest newsreel collections in the world, containing over 27 million feet of theatrically-released newsreels, unreleased stories and outtakes that span 1914 through 1968. In 1981, the bulk of the Hearst Metrotone News collection was donated to the Archive along with the copyright for these materials. Learn more >

News and Public Affairs Collection

NAPA consists of over 100,000 news programs and broadcasts taped off the air from 1979 to 2003. Programs held in the NAPA collection include: local Los Angeles news, network and cable nightly and morning news programs, and local foreign language news. The collection also holds extended coverage of important news events, such as 9/11. Learn more >